David Lammy – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Communities and Local Government

The below Parliamentary question was asked by David Lammy on 2016-05-18.

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what estimate his Department has made of the likely effect of the extension of right-to-buy and the sale of council properties on the total cost of housing benefit in each year to 2020.

Brandon Lewis

The voluntary Right to Buy will give 1.3 million housing association tenants the opportunity to purchase a home.

For every home sold through the voluntary Right to Buy or the sale of higher value vacant housing, at least one additional home will be built and for every higher value property sold in London, two will be built, increasing overall supply.